SECTION I. MISCELLANEOUS SELECTIONS. 1 RETRIBUTION. O righteous doom,] that they) who make Ordering the whole life for its sake, | 5 While they) who bid stern duty lead, Of duty only taking heed, ALEXANDER. 1 By Grecian annals it remained untold,| But may be read in Eastern legend old,] 1. O righteous doom-Exclamatory sentence, equivalent to How righteous is the doom. Doom, from A.S. dœman, to judge, connected with deem. The sense is, How right the judgment. 1 and 4. That they miss that-Subs. Sent., explanatory of doom. 2. Pleasure their only end-Double Obj. (Gr. 76, 1). 3. Ordering the whole life for its sakeParticipial adjunct to the Subject "who." 5. While they, of duty only taking heed, A find pleasure by the way-Adverbial Sent. N.B. The second "they" is a merc repetition of the first. 5. Who bid stern duty lead, content to follow-Adjective Sent. Stern duty lead, double Obj. (Gr. 76, 3). Content to follow, enlargement of the Subj. "who." 1. Untold by Grecian annals-Participial phrase, qualifying the Pred. remained (Gr. 78, d). 2. Princip. Sent. Adversative. Subj. it understood. How,) when Great Alexander died, | he bade) That his two hands uncovered might be laid Men | who had seen him in his majesty, | And nothing now his own in death might call ;] 10 Within those empty hands unto the grave had brought.] THE GOOD LIFE A LONG LIFE. 1 It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be; | 5 A lily of a day 10 Is fairer far in May,| Although it fall and die that night; | at last a dry, bald, and sere log, is not it, [which] doth make man be better. Growing and standing-Participial nouns; subjects to doth make. (1.) Like an adverb; understood also before "oak." (2.) Which understood before doth, contrary to the modern usage, which only allows the relative to be omitted when in the objective case. (4.) A log, dry, bald, and sere-Phrase modifying the verb fall; equivalent, therefore, to an Adverbial phrase-in the form of a log. 9. Just is used here in the sense of exact or complete. The sense is, "That we may find the most complete beauty in the most minute objects, and may have perfect specimens of existence in the narrowest limits." JEHOVAH THE PROVIDER. 1 [Author of being! life-sustaining King !] 5 10 which autumn from a thousand stores Can the swarth reaper grasp the golden grain?| Without thy blessing, all is black and drear ;[ 14 With it, the joys of Eden bloom again. | KNOWLEDGE PROGRESSIVE. 1 Fired at first sight with) what the muse imparts, Short views we take, | nor see the lengths behind.] 1 Nominatives of address, forming no part of a grammatical sentence. 2. Lo!-An interjection. 4. Her, relating to want personified. Give to her prayers= yield in answer to her prayers, &c. Double Object. (Gr. 76, Ex. 1.) 5. All-perfecting-Attrib. to Heats. 7. Provident-Attrib. to autumn. 11. Varied changing. 12. Swarth-swarthy-sunburnt. pare Germ. schwarz. Com 1. Participial enlargement to subj. we. 3, 4. Two Adverbial Sentences. 5. Princip. Sent. Advers. Subj. we understood; enlarged by participial phrase more advanced. Scenes. . . rise, Double Obj. (Gr. 76, 3.) 10 14 1 So pleased, at first, the towering Alps we try,| And the first clouds and mountains seem the last. | WISDOM, TRUE RICHES. In vain do men The heavens of their fortune's fault accuse,| Sith they know best | what is the best for them; | 5 As they do know each can most aptly use. For not that) which men covet most is best,) Nor that thing worst,] which men do most refuse; | With that they hold :] each hath his fortune in his breast. | 7. Pleased-enlargement of Subj. we. 8. Two Princip. Sent. Subj. we. 9. Past-A participle, qualifying the Predicate appear (Gr. 78, d). 10. The last- Same construction as past. 11. Those attained-Nom. abs. (Gr. 106, 4.) To survey the growing labours, &c.— Infin phrase-extension to tremble (cause). 1, 2. Double Obj. vide Gr. (76, Ex. 2.) 3. Sith-Old form for since. Compare the Germ. seit. They, i.e., the heavens. Them, i.e., men. 4. For they to each ... diffuse-Princip. Sent. Illative. 5. As they do know-Adv. Sent. (manner.) Each can most aptly use-Subs. Sent. Obj. to know, with conjunction "that" understood. 8. That all contented rest with thatSubj. to is fittest (Gr. 84, 1). 9. They hold-Adj. Sent. Obj. which understood. 11. Wretch-Old form for wretched. Good, ill, wretch, happy, rich, poor.-Factitives (Gr. 76, Remark 1), the noun, a man, being understood before each. 12-14. Some and other-Used in the singular, a usage now obsolete. |